MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews and The Hawaii Advertiser’s Will Hoover had reported that Obama was born in Indonesia.

In an August 2010 interview with Obama, now-discredited former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams made the declarative statement, “You’re an American born Christian.” However, from 1991 to 2007, Obama’s official biography published by his then-literary agent stated that he was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii,” a statement the agent explained, when confronted in 2012, was the result of a “fact checking error.”

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“I appreciate all your efforts in that regard,” Miller said to Arpaio toward the end of the radio segment. Miller then compared the media’s “double standard” of attention focused on possible 2016 presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s having left college before graduating to the little known or demanded about Obama’s background.

“I understand that; it’s very difficult to find out the background. I don’t think he would qualify to be hired in our office, if you get right down to it,” Arpaio responded. “But, Joe, nobody wants to touch it. It’s amazing; I’ve been in the federal law enforcement field for 30 years and sheriff for 22; I’ve never seen everybody avoid a potential crime. So it’s a little strange what’s going on in our country,” Arpaio concluded.